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John Haiman

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John Michael Haiman is an American linguist and professor at Macalester College. He has done fieldwork on the Hua language of Papua New-Guinea and has published on Khmer, Rhaeto-Romance and Germanic linguistics. In 1989 he received a Guggenheim fellowship for the study of sarcasm.

Books

Natural Syntax
Natural Syntax
John Haiman
The Rhaeto-Romance Languages
The Rhaeto-Romance Languages
John Haiman, Paola Beninca
Cambodian
Cambodian
John Haiman
Essays on Language Function and Language Type
Essays on Language Function and Language Type
Joan L. Bybee, John Haiman, Sandra A. Thompson
Iconicity in Syntax
Iconicity in Syntax
John Haiman
Switch-reference and Universal Grammar
Switch-reference and Universal Grammar
Pamela Munro, John Haiman
Ideophones and the Evolution of Language
Ideophones and the Evolution of Language
John Haiman
Essays on Language Function and Language Type
Essays on Language Function and Language Type
Joan L. Bybee, John Haiman, Sandra A. Thompson
The Rhaeto-Romance Languages
The Rhaeto-Romance Languages
John Haiman, Paola Beninca, Professor of Linguistics John Haiman
Hua, a Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea
Hua, a Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea
John Haiman

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